CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1994-0175
MOLNIYA 3-23
MOLNIYA 3-23 (NORAD 15476) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 5 December 1994, after 9 years, 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
15476
International designator
1985-004A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
16 Jan 1985Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
5 Dec 1994UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
9 years, 10 months3,610 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.9°N to 63.9°SFinal inclination 63.9°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
NPO PM / MSvyaz
Built by
NPO PM
Bus
Molniya-3
Programme
Molniya-3
Where it came down
Latitude band its orbit allowedExact position not recorded
No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 63.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.9°N and 63.9°S.
Life in orbit
9 years, 10 monthsMOLNIYA 3-23’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1985-004
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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